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MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY November 28 - December 2, 1994 Boston Marriott Hotel and Westin Hotel/Copley Place Sheraton Boston Hotel Boston, Massachusetts Meeting Chairs: Theodore M. Besmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Timothy D. Sands, University of California-Berkeley Gary S. Was, University of Michigan.
The 1994 MRS Fall Meeting swells beyond previous MRS meetings in scope and magnitude. The meeting offers 34 symposia and over 4,000 oral and poster presentations—1,000 more than last year. To accommodate the size of the meeting, the Sheraton Hotel, which is connected to the Marriott through a shopping mall, will be used in addition to the Marriott and the Westin Hotels. Evening poster sessions will be in the Westin and Sheraton Hotels and integrated into oral sessions. Exhibits will be held in the Marriott and Westin Hotels. The technical program expands on traditional materials research topics and explores areas that are new to the MRS community. Traditional areas include beam-solid interactions, high Tc superconductors, disordered materials, epitaxy, interfaces, thin films and layered structures, semiconductors, high-temperature intermetallics, ceramics, cementbased materials, optical materials, and ferroelectric materials. Symposia in areas of growing interest in the materials community include polymers, catalysis, fullerenes, biological materials, porous materials, nanocrystalline materials, computational approaches, and materials for smart systems.
The interconnections among the topics are emphasized by clustered symposia representing several themes: surface, film, and interface science; novel materials and material systems; synthesis and processing; novel metal-oxide applications; polymeric materials; characterization and multi-user facilities; and radiation in materials science. Atomic-scale observations and in situ real-time monitoring of growth processes represent an expanding venue, as presented in Symposium D, Atomic-Level Control of Epitaxial Heterostructures. Atomic-scale crystal growth can be observed directly using field ion microscopy, CVD can be monitored in realtime, and STM and SEM can be used for luminescence spectroscopy on individual nanostructures and impurity atoms to determine electronic properties. Sometimes the most interesting research happens in small places, as will be presented in Symposium N, which encompasses talks on x-ray scattering studies used to observe ordering at interfaces, use of "optical tweezers" to observe stretching and relaxation of a single polymer chain, and novel statistical behavior predicted for surface diffusion at bulk-liquid interfaces. The symposium on High-Temperature Intermetallics will grapple with some of the issues of moving a high-technology development from the research lab to industry, such as moving TiAl into mass production for automotive engine valves. Included in Symposia II and 12, Materials for Smart Systems and Ferroelectric Thin Films, are topics related to materials and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems, which have potential
